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Epic Shards/Seals: A guide to which ones drop where.

This is a work in progress.

As far as I know, there's no compilation of info on which seal/shard drops in which quest. Here's the beginnings of such a list.

Items are listed in bold if I am certain about the information (I've seen a screenshot of that chest with the item in it, or I've pulled it myself, or I asked a guildy at the time they pulled it). Items are listed in italics if I'm taking an educated guess as to where the item drops, or if someone tells me where an item dropped but does not have a screenshot.

If you want info on a particular item (let's say you are chasing the seal of the Chainmail Coif), just search this page for 'Chainmail Coif' using your browser's search function.

If you have screenshots of a particular item's drop location, please post them.

Shards for all of these items drop only in the epic raid, Zawabi's Revenge. It's quite common to get one.
Seals drop with a low drop rate in the side chests of epic Against the Demon Queen and I believe they also drop in all chests in Wiz-King, Offering of Blood and Chains of Flame at a very low drop rate.
Scrolls for these items drop on the corpse of any dead monster in epic Demon Sands quests.

Shards for all of these items drop in the epic raid, Zawabi's Revenge and also in the Epic Chest of Epic Against the Demon Queen. It's very rare to get one in the raid, and uncommon to get one in ADQ1 - and rarer still to get the one you want.
Seals drop with a low drop rate in the side chests of epic Against the Demon Queen and I believe they also drop in some or all chests in Wiz-King, Offering of Blood and Chains of Flame at a very low drop rate.
Scrolls for these items drop on the corpse of any dead monster in epic Demon Sands quests.

Shards for all of these items drop in the epic raid, Zawabi's Revenge and also in the Epic Chest of Offering of Blood. It's very rare to get one in the raid, and uncommon to get one in OOB - but at least there's only four of them, so it's not too hard to get the one you want.
Seals drop with a low drop rate in any non-Epic chest in Offering of Blood and I believe they also drop in all chests in Wiz-King and Chains of Flame at a very low drop rate.
Scrolls for these items drop on the corpse of any dead monster in epic Demon Sands quests.

Shards for all of these items drop in the epic raid, Zawabi's Revenge and also in the Epic Chest of Chains of Flame. It's very rare to get one in the raid, and uncommon to get one in Chains.
Seals drop with a low drop rate in any non-Epic chest in Chains of Flame and I believe they also drop in all chests in Wiz-King and OOB at a very low drop rate. I'm not certain if the seals of items (like Unkor's Cleaver) are restricted to only (or mostly) drop from the chest that the base item is found in (for instance, the base Cleaver is only found in the locked room chest, I speculate that the seal may be more common there than in, say, the Library chest).
Scrolls for these items drop on the corpse of any dead monster in epic Demon Sands quests.

Shards for all of these items drop in the epic raid, Zawabi's Revenge and also in the Epic Chest of Chamber of Raiyum. Note that acquiring the Epic Chest requires you to slay Raiyum, Hafez and Hami. Shards are very rare in the raid, and uncommon in Wiz-King.
Seals drop with a low drop rate in any non-Epic chest in Chamber of Raiyum and I believe they also drop in all chests in OOB and Chains of Flame at a very low drop rate.
Scrolls for these items drop on the corpse of any dead monster in epic Demon Sands quests.

If anyone can report pulling a Seal in a place I don't recall having seen one (such as an OOB seal in an ADQ1 side chest or the ADQ1 epic chest), please post a screenshot.

Shards for all of these items drop only in the Epic Chest of Plane of Night.
Seals for these items drop three ways.
Firstly, the VON6 epic chest has a modest chance to drop any seal from the pack.
Secondly, any 'side chest' (i.e. any chest that is not the Epic chest) has a small chance to drop any seal from the pack.
Thirdly, and most importantly, each of the five Epic chests at the end of VON1 through VON5 drops specific seals moderately frequently, but also has a slim chance to drop other seals from the pack. For example, the Sword of Shadow seal can drop in any Epic chest, but is about seven times more likely to drop in the VON1 epic chest than it is to drop in the VON3 one.

Each item in the VONs has one 'home' quest, where it is much more likely to drop. The list follows:

VON1:
Stonemeld Plate
Sword of Shadow
Belt of the Mroranon
Docent of Grace

VON5 - note these seals drop a fair bit in VON3 as well, and also as this quest is only 'home' for 3 items, it's more common to get unlisted seals here.
Kundarak Delving Boots (this seal is very, very rare)
Ruby Encrusted Gauntlets
Necklace of Silver Prophecy

Epic-only VON6 items
In VON6 epic, the Epic Helm of the Red Dragon drops pre-made (no shard/seal/scroll) with a very low drop rate in the Epic Chest. In addition, the Shard of the Red Dragon drops with a moderately low drop rate in the same chest, but does not have an attached seal or scroll. Instead of a seal, you require 20 epic dungeon tokens, and instead of a scroll, 20 flawless red dragonscales, and instead of a base item, any of the Gianthold dragonscale armors.

Shards for all of these items drop only in the Epic chest of The Tide Turns.
Seals for these items drop in any of the side quests. Each of the side quests can drop all of the seals and drop rates do not change from one side quest to another, so just run whichever is your favorite.

Shards for all of these items drop only in the Epic chest of Under the Big Top.Help is requested for seal drop locations. Where known or suspected, seal drop locations are listed with the item names, below, but I've not really bothered to run these much. Seals in this adventure pack drop only in the epic chests of the listed quests
Scrolls for all of these items drop on the corpse of any monster in the Carnival quests.

Shards for all of these items drop only in the Epic chest of Into the Depths.. Note that this is awarded for completing the Hezrou 'optional' fight, not for killing the Priestess.Help is requested for seal drop locations. Where known or suspected, seal drop locations are listed with the item names, below, but I've not paid attention to any other than the items I've wanted to craft. Seals in this adventure pack drop only in the epic chests of the listed quests
Scrolls for all of these items drop on the corpse of any monster in the Red Fens quests.

Great thread. I don't actually think you can get the quest specific sand seals from WK, OOB and Chains from any other quest than the one the item drops in, but it might just be that the drop rate is really low... I do know that after grinding out WK, OOB and ADQ chests for half a year I had to start doing Chains to get my Greaves seal. and I still don't have my ring of Baphomet seal. -_-

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